Lockhart Lions Having Corn, Barbecue Dinner

Lockhart Lions will have their annual Corn Boil and Barbecue from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at 7406 Edgewater Drive, next to Lockhart Elementary School.

A barbecue chicken dinner, which includes unlimited sweet corn, cole slaw and other trimmings plus a beverage, will cost $3.75 for adults and $2.50 for children.

The Lions have sponsored the event for more than 15 years, member Carlton Exum said. The corn is donated every year by the Billy Long Farm in Zellwood. Proceeds will be used by the Lions for projects to help people with sight problems. For details, call 293-1147.

-- A team of four professional skydivers from the Paragators Club in Eustis unfurled a banner with the words ''Just Say No'' before they touched down May 24 at Apopka Junior High School.

Their spectacular entrance started the students' ''Just Say No'' anti- drug march down Park Avenue from the school to Apopka's city park about a quarter of a mile away.

Others who marched with the students included members of the Orlando Renegades football team and its cheerleaders and the Vietnam Veterans of Central Florida color guard. Apopka Mayor John Land spoke during the rally at the end of the march.

The march was organized by Apopka Police Cpl. Jim Kolbinskie, the school's liaison officer. About 200 people participated.

-- Robert and Marie Johnson of Plymouth held a bon voyage party complete with roast pig at their home May 24 for a dozen longtime friends and relatives. About 80 other guests also attended.

The next day the Johnsons and their 12 longtime friends shoved off on a weeklong anniversary cruise of the Caribbean islands to celebrate 342 collective years of marriage.

Five of the couples were celebrating 50 years together.

Observing their golden anniversaries were Johnson's brother, Earl, and his wife, Betty, of Dayton, Ohio; his sister, Francis, and her husband, Robert Temple, of Santee, S.C.; Ruth and Charles Geisel of Dayton; Lorraine and Robert Thorne of Orlando; and Betty and Lester Cyphers of Deltona.

Clara and Lewis Kolker of Dayton were celebrating their 51st anniversary, and the Johnsons, whose anniversary was Friday, marked their 41st anniversary.